Starting Tuesday, June 3rd at 8pm, Turner Classic Movies will be presenting Race & Hollywood: Asian Images in Film, a groundbreaking festival of 37 films examining the portrayal of Asians in classic movies. The festival is co-hosted by Robert Osborne and Dr. Peter X Feng, an expert on Asian American film.
Movies include: The Slanted Screen, Broken Blossoms, Go For Broke!, The World of Suzie Wong, Flower Drum Song, and Rush Hour 2 (?!).
For a full schedule, video clips, photo gallery, articles and more; go to their website. The series will continue every Tuesday and Thursday in June on Turner Classic Movies.
Boy, my Tivo is going to be full in June!
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Efren wrote:
Wow, this looks really cool, and I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with Peter online when we were both on an Asian American grad students’ list 10+ years ago, when he was finishing up his PhD and I was starting my master’s. Nice to see that he’s doing something so prominent and really needed.
It would be very interesting if they featured James Shigeta’s movie, Crimson Kimono, which is thought to feature the first-ever kiss between an Asian man and a white woman in American film. It’s totally campy and a guilty pleasure, but it’s a great movie to watch just for the way the Japanese Americans are portrayed in the film.
Posted on 01-Jun-08 at 12:10 pm | Permalink
Asianmommy wrote:
That’s great! I’m looking forward to it.
Posted on 02-Jun-08 at 1:17 pm | Permalink